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Conference on Languages in Contact
Groningen University
November 25-26, 1999
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
A conference on languages in contact will be held on November
25-26, 1999, at the University of Groningen. This conference will
include sessions devoted to descriptive and theoretical aspects of
language contact.
For registration: http://www.let.rug.nl/LiC
The aim of this conference is to discuss language contact. Issues
for discussion involve pidgins and creoles, minorities and their
languages, Diaspora situations, 'Sprachbund' phenomena,
extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact situations,
problems of endangered languages and the typology of these
languages.
We have also expanded the program to include a TUTORIAL on
languages in contact by Prof. Sarah Thomason. This will be
held on Wed. Nov. 24 from 2-6 (with two one-half hour breaks).
The conference will be held on the occasion of the degree of
honorary doctor in St Petersburg of Dr Tjeerd de Graaf.
Keynote speakers, in alphabetical order:
Liya Bondarko (University of St Petersburg)
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute Leipzig)
Evgenij Golovko (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Pieter Muysken (University of Leiden)
Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan)
For More Information:
INTERNET at the site: http://www.let.rug.nl/LiC
The organisers should like to ask all participants to arrange their
registration there.
The organizing committee
John Nerbonne, Jos Schaeken, Dicky Gilbers
Department of Linguistics
University of Groningen
Oude Kijk in `t Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen
The Netherlands
e-mail: nerbonnelet.rug.nl, schaekenlet.rug.nl,
gilberslet.rug.nl
fax: +31-50-3636855
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Dicky Gilbers
http://www.let.rug.nl/~gilbers/
e-mail: gilberslet.rug.nl
Faculty of Arts
Department of Linguistics
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
tel.: +31 50 363 59 83
fax: +31 50 363 49 00
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